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While reading a recent article in The New Yorker about Chris Christie and the Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, which he chairs, I was struck by one particular quote. An expert, called upon to testify as to the nature of America’s increasingly dire opioid crisis, informed the Commission that “We can’t incarcerate our way out of the overdose epidemic, which now kills more Americans than car accidents or gun homicide.”Continue Reading